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Fermentation (kefir, yoghurt, cheese). Recently lactase.

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Boo!

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As someone who checks comments to see if it’s worth my time to read the source, thank you for your service. And also as someone who checks primary sources, curse me for caring, I shall look because I commented…

I didn’t.

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My thanks to the heroes that use .0 versions, see you at .1

Hard Science Futurism: What types of theoretical prefabricated materials would the first stellar generation ship carry to construct an O'Neil cylinder upon arrival?

Assuming we are talking about an era when Sol has a thriving space industry and the Solar system is broadly colonized. Current materials science supports structures up to 8 kilometers in diameter, and if large scale graphene production is possible, up to 100km in diameter, at least according to Isaac Arthor....

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Why ship pieces instead of shipping manufacturing capability (nano 3D printing etc) and use resources at the end point? By then presumably we’ve got asteroid mining down, no?

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Fair cop.

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Eh, more a merge, characteristics of both.

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Yes, yes it was , damn she’s a good acrtress (not to disparage Nimoy, but that was Gold)

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